Welcome

1. Don't ask people to follow or upvote you. Earn those.
2. Write as much original content as possible. Even if you post a video of something, provide your own commentary.
3. Look at the New, Trending and Hot...browse around. Read other posts, find posts that you like and follow those people.
4. Comment on other people's posts with a nice related comment. They might follow you after seeing it. They might even upvote it.
5. Limit your upvoting to 10-15 per 24 hours. It takes time to rebuild your voting power. You can vote more when you are bigger fish.
6. Go write a introducemyself post and use the hashtag. Make sure you write about what you want out of STEEMit and what you think you might post.